Walking with the Wind

Long before Lewis collaborated on his National Book Award-winning comic-book memoir, March, he wrote this more traditional memoir, recounting his decades in the center of the civil rights movement, beginning when he was a teenager in Nashville, and the first years of what have become his decades in Congress. Anyone who knows his style as an activist and politician—quiet, matter-of-fact, and tirelessly insistent—will recognize and appreciate his approach to telling his story of the movement: its dangers, its solidarity, and its divisions.